Source: http://www.ibamag.com, January 10, 2014 By: Caitlin Bronson The standard take on environmental insurance is that companies only purchase it when required, making it a niche product without a lot of payoff for producers. However, as more companies start to understand their emerging risks—and environmental-related coverage under ageneral liability policies remains in a state of […]

Source: http://shalestuff.com, January 11, 2014 By: Luke Johnson A new study has found that a majority of Americans have very little understanding of the hydraulic fracturing process, and the few that do are roughly split in support and opposition to the unconventional oil and gas extraction process. In a survey conducted in September 2012 by […]

Source: http://www.modbee.com, January 9, 2014 By: J.N. Sbranti Two environmental lawyers are demanding Stanislaus County officials immediately stop issuing new water well drilling permits without first reviewing what impacts they could have on the environment. They also want the county to revoke 61 large irrigation wells approved during the past five months. If Stanislaus officials […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 8, 2014 By: Ruth S. Kochenderfer and Deanna P. Cook, Steptoe & Johnson LLP In Phillips v. Parmelee, No. 2011AP2608, 2013 WL 6818145 (Wis. Dec. 27, 2013) (applying Wisconsin law), the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that an asbestos exclusion in a liability policy barred a duty to defend and indemnify a building […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 27, 2013 By: Amy L. Pierce, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Thirteen years after the complaint was filed, on Monday, December 16, 2013, California Superior Court Judge James P. Kleinberg, in People of the State of California v. Atlantic Richfield Co. et al., Santa Clara Superior Court Case No. 1-00-cv-788657, issued a […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 6, 2014 By: Natalie Dubose, Haynes and Boone LLP A variety of businesses from hospitals and hotels to agricultural producers and restaurants may from time to time be faced with the threat of viral or bacterial outbreaks and related claims from third parties. When such outbreaks result in injury to persons or […]

Read here about the economic ramifications that are being felt after a chemical spill in West Virginia.

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Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 24, 2013 By: Loren S. Cohen, Carl J. Pernicone and Jacob R. Graham, Wilson Elser In Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Hilltop View, LLC , 2013 IL App (4th) 130124, an intermediate Illinois appeals court held that the absolute pollution exclusion in an umbrella policy did not preclude coverage for a claim […]

Source: Trenton Times (NJ), January 6, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com In at least four states that have nurtured the nation’s energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was confirmed in a number of them, according to a review that casts doubt on industry suggestions […]

Source: Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), January 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The federal government is again criticizing a bill that would further delay the implementation of water-quality rules and make it easier for builders to construct housing in undeveloped areas. If it is passed this week in Trenton, the bill would continue an already five-year delay […]

Source: Legal Monitor Worldwide, January 6, 0214 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Environmentalists and municipal officials have been celebrating a Pennsylvania state Supreme Court decision striking down key elements of a 2012 law that eliminated local zoning laws in favor of statewide regulations that allowed energy companies to dig gas wells anywhere they wished. But the court’s […]